Pieta

Michelangelo’s Pieta In 1497, the French ambassador, Cardinal Jean de Bilhères-Lagraulas, commissioned him to carve the famous Pietà, showing the Virgin Mary grieving over the body of her son, Jesus. It is one of the key signature pieces of art from the ‘High Renaissance’ period (1497 ~ 1527). Michelangelo wrote over three hundred poems, sonnets […]